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23 Apr 2013

Author:
Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable

Civil Society Consultation for US Country Visit of UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

On April 23rd, ICAR and the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center hosted the UN Working Group (WG) on...[business &] human rights...as part of its country mission to the United States...ICAR invited leading representatives from civil society to speak in panels focused on the State Duty to Protect, the Corporate Responsibility to Respect, and Access to Remedy. [With video. Interventions, in order: Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Free the Slaves, Global Witness, Publish What You Pay-USA, Conflict Risk Network, Intl. Indian Treaty Council, Calvert Investments, Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity), EarthRights Intl., Prof. Anita Ramasastry, Ranking Digital Rights, Oxfam America, Initiative for Human Rights in Business at American Univ. Washington College of Law, Fair Food Program, First Peoples Worldwide, ECPAT-USA, American Bar Assoc. Section of Intl. Law, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative. Refers to Lukoil, Rosneft, Gazprom, PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, Petrobras, General Electric (GE), HP, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Barclays. Topics included US Government requirements re company impacts inside & outside USA, core labour standards, forced labour, conflict minerals, revenue transparency, Burma reporting requirements, legal accountability in USA, non-judicial grievance mechanisms, online privacy & freedom of expression, human rights in food & agriculture sector, financial derivatives & hunger, forced labour in agriculture, impacts on indigenous peoples and free prior & informed consent, child trafficking through travel & tourism industry.]